Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse II · §10 · John Wesley

Without a cause

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But would one not be inclined to prefer the reading of those copies which omit the word "without a cause"? Is it not entirely unnecessary? For if anger at persons is a temper contrary to love, how can there be a cause, a sufficient cause, for it, any cause that will justify it in the sight of God?

1771 text

But would not one be inclined to prefer the reading of those copies, which omit the word, εἰκῆ, without a cause? Is it not entirely superfluous? For if anger at persons be a temper contrary to love, how can there be a cause, a sufficient cause for it? Any that will justify it in the sight of God?

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The second sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 5:5-7: the meek, those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and the merciful.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 22 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 5:5-7.

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